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A Palestinian-American nurse was fired by a New York City hospital after she referred to Israel’s genocide in Gaza during a speech accepting an award.

Labor and delivery nurse Hesen Jabr was being honored by NYU Langone Health for her compassion in caring for mothers who had lost babies when she drew a link between her work and the suffering of mothers in Gaza.

“It pains me to see the women from my country going through unimaginable losses themselves during the current genocide in Gaza,” Jabr said. “This award is deeply personal to me for those reasons.”

She arrived at work on May 22 for her first shift back after receiving the award when she was summoned to a meeting with the hospital’s president and vice president of nursing “to discuss how I ‘put others at risk’ and ‘ruined the ceremony’ and ‘offended people’ because a small part of my speech was a tribute towards the grieving mothers in my country.”

After working most of her shift she was “dragged once again to an office” where she was read her termination letter and then escorted out of the building by a security officer.